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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Escaping ** correctly Post 302394741 by Corona688 on Friday 12th of February 2010 11:09:45 AM
Old 02-12-2010
The problem is that you can't put quoted strings inside variables and expect them to get split sanely AFTER substitution has already happened. It'll split apart on spaces but not much else. It doesn't re-check for quoted strings etc. after substitution's already happened. So your script isn't being given **, it's being given '**', quotes and all! And yet, if you remove the quotes, it WILL substitute for *, even though it doesn't substitute for strings...

Put them in an array so there's no guessing at all involved in which parts are string, which parts are quotes, and where it should split them apart; it'll do so just like you'd expect of program arguments. There's a magic syntax to spit out an entire array as properly separated parameters too.

Code:
ARGS=( --include /home --exclude "**" )
# This array syntax spits out an array, splitting ONLY between elements.
program "${ARGS[@]}"

This won't work in ordinary sh, which doesn't have arrays.

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